Water Governance, Institutions and Conflicts in the Maasai Rangelands

Autor:	Kennedy Mkutu Agade, David Anderson, Klerkson Lugusa, Evelyne Atieno Owino
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Geography Planning and Development Management Monitoring Policy and Law Development
Zdroj:	The Journal of Environment & Development. 31:395-420
ISSN:	1552-5465 1070-4965
DOI:	10.1177/10704965221123390
Popis:	Water scarcity in Narok county, Kenya may be attributed to demographic pressures, land-use changes, environmental degradation and the effects of climate change. This article combines methodologies from history and political science to investigate how local communities cope with water scarcity. In so doing, we consider how institutions, both indigenous and modern, mitigate conflict over access to and control of water sources. Cases are presented from sites of irrigation and development projects or plans. We find that climate change has little to do with water conflicts in Narok, but that more important factors are privatisation and commoditisation of formerly common-pool resources, and challenges and failures in modern water governance in mediating between Maasai (pastoralist) and non-Maasai (agriculturalist) groups. Indigenous governance institutions still have a place in conflict resolution and environmental protection.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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